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POUNDED

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What POUNDED Means

POUNDED is a form of POUND, which means:

  1. noun: 16 ounces avoirdupois“he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds”
  2. noun: the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
  3. verb: hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument“the salesman pounded the door knocker”
  4. verb: strike or drive against with a heavy impact“ram the gate with a sledgehammer”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POUNDED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 U1 N1 D2 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In POUNDED

76 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (2)

5 letter words (6)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (16)

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